Alan Scott

Alan Scott (2 March 1936 – 26 January 2009) was a blacksmith and baking traditionalist who designed and built brick ovens and coauthored a book promoting their use for cooking breads and pizza. He built ovens in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and started the Ovencrafters company.

Life Scott was born in Toorak in Victoria, Australia on 2 March 1936. He graduated from Dookie Agricultural College, Scott traveled throughout Australia, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Denmark—all hitchhiking. Eventually, he settled in Denmark and opened a jewelry store. The Bread Builders contained a treatise on the history and science of bread making, and gave detailed specifications for how to build a brick oven.

Returning to Australia in 2004, Scott opened a practice in Oatlands.

Advocacy Scott spent much of his time conducting workshops and overseeing the building of community ovens, which he believed brought communities together. He further lectured on and encouraged small-scale industry, environmental stewardship, community connectivity and spiritual consideration. His business, Ovencrafters, pushed for "policy with principles, commerce with morality, wealth with work, and science with humanity".